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GALA CONCERT BOU RGIE H A LL
MONTR EA L MUSEU M OF FINE A RTS
FEATURING WORLD PREMIERES BY
KEIKO DEVAUX, YOTAM HABER
OCTOBER 8 P. M . (ET)
& YITZHAK YEDID
SPECIAL LIVESTREAM
LE NOUVEL ENSEMBLE MODERNE
LORRAINE VAILLANCOURT, MEDICI.TV
CONDUCTOR FACEBOOK.COM/A ZR IELIMUSIC
ABOUT THE A ZRIELI
FOU NDATION
Inspired by the values and vision of our founder, David
J. Azrieli z”l, the mission of the Azrieli Foundation is
to improve the lives of present and future generations
through Education, Research, Healthcare and the Arts.
We are passionate about the promise and importance
of a rigorous yet creative approach to philanthropy.
We believe that strategic leadership, collaboration and
forward thinking are key to bold discoveries.
In addition to making philanthropic investments across
our priority areas, the Foundation operates a number
of programs, including the Azrieli Music Prizes, the
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, the Azrieli
Fellows Program, the Azrieli Science Grants Program
and the Azrieli Prize in Architecture.
Our vision is to remember the past, heal the present
and enhance the future of the Jewish people and all
humanity.
To learn more:
www.azrielifoundation.org
SHARON
A Message from
AZRIELI
We are thrilled to celebrate with you the third Israeli-born Yitzhak Yedid’s Kadosh Kadosh and shaping cultural identity and educating present
Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert. Cursed unites contemporary Western music and future generations. The questions, “What is
and ancient Mizrahi songs across twenty-four Jewish music?” and “What is Canadian music?”
What a remarkable adventure the Prizes musical scenes. Together, they showcase a ask composers to amplify and honour stories
have had since we fêted our 2018 Laureates. unique voice shaped by a mixed Syrian and and traditions that resonate with us all.
Although we have had our ups and downs, Iraqi Jewish background, filtered through the
like the rest of the world, we have persevered! experience of this composer and improvising How do we answer these questions? It starts
And great music has been made! In 2019, we pianist. with guidance from outstanding individuals on
were in Warsaw at the wonderful POLIN with our juries and advisory council, both past and
Sinfonia Varsovia and Maestro Yoav Talmi; and Keiko Devaux contemplates the multi-faceted present. I am grateful for their intelligence and
in Prague at the stunning Smetana Hall with tapestry of our Canadian identity – a rich sonic commitment to these Prizes.
the Czech National Symphony and Maestro fabric woven together by the preservation and
Steven Mercurio. We recorded our second celebration of musical recollections. Her piece, It also involves partners like Le NEM, soloist
album – New Jewish Music Vol. 2 – which Arras, weaves Keiko’s French and Japanese- Krisztina Szabó and Maestra Lorraine
garnered great reviews. Now we are back in Canadian heritage through a compositional Vaillancourt. I’d like to thank them in advance
Montreal, to appreciate the artistry, creativity process where songs from the past become for tonight’s performances. I also thank the
and musical excellence of the 2020 Azrieli abstract inspirations and wisps of memory. board and staff of the Azrieli Foundation for
Music Prizes. their ongoing support.
Yotam Haber continues his fascination with
This year has undoubtedly demanded that the music of Rome’s Jewish community. Estro While I miss experiencing this concert with you
we think and act creatively. Tonight, in your Poetico-armonico III employs texts by Israeli in person, we are all listening and applauding
own home, on the date we promised, you will poets addressing modern Israeli life sung in together. I look forward to seeing you in 2022, if
experience magnificent music composed by conjunction with, or in opposition to, Roman not before!
our three Laureates. You can watch, listen and cantillations and liturgical texts captured in
share these performances again, thanks to archival recordings. Until then, I wish you a beautiful and inspiring
our partnership with Medici TV. concert.
I conceived of the Azrieli Music Prizes with a
What are we hearing tonight? firm belief that music plays a positive role in Sharon Azrieli D.Mus, C.Q.
© Jeffrey Hornstein
NAOMI
A Message from
AZRIELI
© Yuri Dojc
On behalf of the board and staff of the Azrieli repertoires – will continue to strengthen our
Foundation, welcome to the 2020 Azrieli Music community. Thank you for joining us tonight to
Prizes Gala Concert. celebrate these creations.
Music plays such a vital role in the health of our Kudos and thank you to my sister, Dr. Sharon
community. When COVID-19 closed everything Azrieli, who conceived of these prizes, and to
down in March 2020, we were quickly reminded Jason van Eyk, the Manager of Azrieli Music
of the impact that music has in calming, healing Initiatives. Together, with their juries and
and balancing our world. So many of the videos advisory council, they ensure that the success
and stories that people shared online involved and impact of the Azrieli Music Prizes is reached
music. The Azrieli Foundation responded to the through professionalism and creativity.
crisis with continued funding to our grantees in
music and the arts, and also by extending and Finally, congratulations to tonight’s laureates. I
increasing our funding to recipients and new wish you much success with these magnificent
programs. We are honoured that we could play a new works.
part in repairing the world through the arts.
Naomi Azrieli, DPhil
Tonight’s performance – and the new music Chair and CEO
that will be added to Jewish and Canadian The Azrieli Foundation
LORR AINE
A Word from
VAILLANCOURT
Le NEM begins its 32nd season in most peculiar, though not unique
conditions, since the crisis that has struck the entire world has left
no one unscathed. We are far from the only ones to have suffered its
consequences.
When I founded Le NEM, other than the desire to perform – and
perform again – the great works of the 20th and 21st centuries, to
showcase the music of our time through the compositions of resolutely
modern composers of all origins, my main preoccupation was to give
the musicians the time needed to be able to convey this music in all its
power, complexity and eloquence.
Thus, fifteen engaged and engaging musicians set to work under my
direction, on January 10, 1989.
Some of them remained with us for 25 years!
It’s rather ironic to think that this time that is so precious to me
suddenly stood still in March of this year.
Time became a blur for most of us,
Time stolen for some, time regained for others,
Time of solitude and time for reflection,
Difficult times where perspectives vanish and uncertainty sets in…
My thanks to the Azrieli Foundation for choosing Le NEM to perform
these new works, providing us the opportunity to turn to the future,
and return to the stage following an eight-month hiatus, a period
during which our memories and archives were our only sustenance...
a rich past that should not lead us to forget the world to come!
Lorraine Vaillancourt
Conductor
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
© Bernard Préfontaine
NORMAND
A Word from
FORGET
© Eva Lepiz
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am delighted to welcome you here, in the varied, and it will be interesting to see whether
magnificent Salle Bourgie, and to share this it will have influenced the musical writing of
concert with you. The Azrieli Foundation does our laureates, confirming that, as Lorraine
incredible work promoting and producing the Vaillancourt put so well, “this crisis has left no
music of our time, and we are proud of our one unscathed”.
association with them. The prestige of the Azrieli
Music Prizes, both here and abroad, continues to In my capacity as Artistic Director, it is a great
attract many of today’s most gifted composers. pleasure to introduce the extraordinary mezzo-
These prizes promote the discovery, creation, soprano Krisztina Szabó, our remarkable
performance and celebration of Jewish and conductor, Lorraine Vaillancourt, as well as Sharon
Canadian music in all its diversity. Azrieli, who is the inspiration behind the Azrieli
Music Prizes.
It is always a great joy to discover new music.
Tonight will be no exception. The works of Keiko Music speaks to us and brings us together. May
Devaux, Yotam Haber and Yitzhak Yedid, which this concert be for all of us a moment of rejoicing
stem from varied and richly flourishing artistic and celebration.
realms, represent a wonderful challenge, as they
have provided the ensemble with a precious Have a wonderful evening!
opportunity: to take the time needed to approach,
absorb and perform these works.
Normand Forget
It is impossible to ignore the times we live in. The Artistic Director
consequences of the pandemic are numerous and Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
PROGR A M ME
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
Lorraine Vaillancourt • CONDUCTOR
Yitzhak Yedid
Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed
Pierre Mercure
Dissidence
(arr. by Jonathan Monro)
Sharon Azrieli • SOPRANO
I. Les lions jaunes
II. Psaume
III. Le cri de joie
Keiko Devaux
Arras
Yotam Haber
Estro Poetico-armonico III
Krisztina Szabó • MEZZO-SOPRANO
I. The Meal (Eliahu) | Tzur Mishelo Achalnu
II. Wanted to Elaborate… (Shabtai) | Ahot Ktanah
III. Night Prayer (Eliahu) | Havdallah
IV. Abraham Becomes Human (Bernstein) | Chad Gadya
V. Song of the Righteous (Bar-Kohav) | Kol Biru’ei
PROGRAMME NOTES
BY ROBERT MARKOW
K ADOSH
K ADOSH
A ND
YITZHAK YEDID
Born in Jerusalem, September 9, 1971;
CURSED
now living in Brisbane, Australia
The Israeli-born, Australian-based composer Jewish cantorial music with classical European in Jerusalem – that holy yet explosive place, uproar followed by a quiet, unnerving and
and pianist Yitzhak Yedid is winner of the 2020 and avant-garde techniques. His skills as an sacred to Muslims and Jews alike. My work is asymmetrical rhythmic section that grows
Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music, awarded “to a improvising pianist add a further dimension to a documentary of sorts, about a blessed place towards a slow-building climax. This climax
composer who has written the best new work of his creative work. “Yedid’s music is generally not (Kadosh Kadosh), which is also a locus of curses, reflects the key attributes of the work as a
Jewish music.” In unanimously selecting Yedid for the faint-hearted,” writes critic Barry Davis of intra-religious violence. Kadosh Kadosh and whole: energetic, passionate and unyielding.
for this year’s prize, the jury described his music The Jerusalem Post. “The intensity of his writing Cursed is therefore a conflicting homage to my The few pauses in the score are full of tension,
as “brilliant, creative, dramatic, slyly humorous is palpable.” hometown, Jerusalem. The work, in two parts, catapulting continuous forward motion through
and unquestionably Jewish.” Other awards consists of twenty-four connected tableaux coherent transition from chordal to heterophonic,
include the top two prizes in Israel for classical Yedid undertook his musical training at the or musical scenes that bridge the variegated multi-voiced sections. The section entitled
performers and composers: The Prime Minister’s Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, then compositional approaches originating from two “Arabic-music like” is woven through a chromatic
Prize for Composers (2007) and the Landau Prize at the New England Conservatory in Boston and remote, opposing musical traditions: on the transition. The texture travels naturally from
for Performing Arts (2009). at Monash University in Melbourne, where he one hand from Arabic art music and Mizrahi ‘the east’ to ‘the west,’ reflecting the sounds
earned his Ph.D. in 2013. He currently lectures Piyyutim (Arabic-influenced, Jewish liturgical one hears in Jerusalem, the ‘loaded and
The composer of over fifty works, Yedid melds in composition and piano at the Queensland and paraliturgical ornate songs) and on the other explosive place’ that inspired the work.” In this
the music of his ancestral Syrian and Iraqi Conservatorium Griffith University in Brisbane. from European traditions, avant-garde music and way, Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed creates “a
Jewish background with Western art music. His improvisation.” meeting point between the ancient and the new,
compositions exhibit an eclectic, multicultural The composer writes that “Kadosh Kadosh between historic and current events, in musical,
and highly personal style, blending jazz and and Cursed was inspired by the Temple Mount “Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed begins with an philosophical and human terms.”
PROGR AMME NOTES
DISSIDENCE (Arr. for soprano solo and chamber orchestra by Jonathan Monro)
I. Les lions jaunes
II. Psaume
III. Le cri de joie
PIERRE MERCURE
Born in Montreal, February 21, 1927; and composition with Claude Champagne. In capture the tone of each, respectively assertive
died near Avallon, France, January 29, 1966 addition, he learned to play no fewer than six and commanding, soothing and comforting,
instruments: piano, organ, flute, cello, trumpet exuberant and joyful.
On January 29, 1966, Canada lost one of and bassoon. The last was Mercure’s main
its most promising young composers when instrument, and for the 1947-1948 season he In reflecting on his arrangement of Dissidence for
Pierre Mercure, just 38 years old (same as was engaged by Wilfrid Pelletier to play with Le NEM, which receives its world première this
Mendelssohn), died in a car crash near Avallon, the Montreal Symphony. He remained in the evening, composer Jonathan Monro said, “I set
between Paris and Dijon in central France. In orchestra until 1952, though the 1949-50 out to honour Mercure’s vocal and instrumental
his short career, he had risen to the front rank season was spent in Paris, studying first with intentions while creating even more specific,
of contemporary Canadian composers and had Nadia Boulanger (composition) and later with intimate colours that I know this outstanding
shown a remarkable propensity for growth while Arthur Hoérée (orchestration) and Jean Fournet ensemble can produce. From the controlled fury
retaining his artistic integrity. (conducting). of Les lions jaune, to the loneliness of Psaume
and the ecstasy of Le cri de joie, each song
Mercure’s professional study began at the Mercure’s Cantate pour une joie (1955) for is a personal journey; and it is my hope that
Conservatoire in Montreal and continued with soprano, choir and orchestra has been over every detail of my orchestrations feels just as
periods of study in Paris and at Tanglewood, the years one of his most frequently performed personal.”
Massachusetts. Gabriel Charpentier, Jocelyne works. The Montreal Symphony, Calgary
Binet and Clermont Pépin, three other Quebec Philharmonic and the National Arts Centre
composers living in Paris at the time, were highly Orchestra, among others, have performed it.
influential on Mercure in his search for artistic Alexander Brott led a performance of the work
independence. With them, he assiduously in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II at the
pursued his growing interest in musique Olympics in Montreal in 1976. In 2015, Boris Brott
concrète, chance music and especially the imaginatively paired Cantate pour une joie with
integration of various artistic media (theater, film, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in a concert by the
dance, painting, sculpture). Back in Montreal, McGill Chamber Orchestra, and just last year it
Mercure organized a contemporary music was performed by the Montreal Philharmonic
festival in 1961 that led the way to the founding Orchestra of Musicians. One of the four
of the Société de musique contemporaine du component parts of the cantata is Dissidence,
Québec (SMCQ) in 1966, now one of Canada’s three short songs set to poems by Gabriel
leading purveyors of contemporary music from Charpentier in 1955 when the composer was just
many countries. Among his many achievements, 28. Charpentier (b. 1925) wore several other hats
Mercure was the first producer of music besides that of poet. He was also a prominent
programs on television for Radio-Canada. composer, a theater producer, and worked
alongside Mercure as coordinator and consultant
Mercure was a man of broad education. At the for music programs at Radio-Canada. Mercure’s
Conservatoire in Montreal, he studied harmony settings of Charpentier’s songs appropriatelyPROGR AMME NOTES
ARR AS KEIKO DEVAUX
Born in Castlegar, British Columbia, Matejcek Prize for New Classical Music (2019) describes as “a kaleidoscope of influences over tapestry. The first is “a dialogue among the
May 23, 1982; now living in Montreal and twice the OUM composition prize (2016 and generations, cultures and musical genres within various strands of my cultural heritage.”
2018.) This year, she won the inaugural Azrieli my, and my families’, sonic histories.” She draws Here, the composer breaks down and distills
Originally from British Columbia, where she Commission for Canadian Music. In making its inspiration from a range of material representing elements of these strands to find unexpected
was born to a Japanese-Canadian mother and decision, the Azrieli Music Prizes Canadian jury the professions of both sides of her family tree commonalities between them, interweaving
a French father, Keiko Devaux is currently found her creative output to be “interesting, (the sound of wind through fields symbolizing shared melodic fragments and harmonic
based in Montreal, where she is pursuing her authentic and in a whole different category. Her agriculture, and that of a mechanical loom identities. The second kind of dialogue is
doctorate at the Université de Montréal under compositions are mysterious, compelling and apropos of weaving), the natural environments between “influences and nostalgia of my past
the supervision of Ana Sokolović and Pierre beautiful. Her proposal [for Arras] exhibits a in which they lived (including patterns of animal with my own contemporary voice. This is where
Michaud. She has also studied with composer clever and original inquiry into what it means to behaviours such as those of starlings and the actual re-composition takes place as I
Salvatore Sciarrino at the Accademia Musicale be Canadian that is both honest and, in a way, fireflies), as well as the musical traditions both reconstruct these fragments in my own way.
Chigiana in Siena, Italy (2017-2019). From 2016 hard hitting.” religious (plainsong and Buddhist chant) and The principal aspect of my compositional
to 2018, Devaux was composer in residence with vernacular (chanson française and Japanese- method is to interact with written material
Montreal’s Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and from In Arras (meaning a richly woven tapestry), American popular music) through which these through various distortions – stretching,
2020 to 2022 she will be artist in residence with Devaux distills various elements representing families expressed their identities. condensing, layering, looping, cutting,
the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa both of her families’ musical and sonic transposing and interpolating the material –
as part of the Carrefour composer program. Her environments through her personal To create Arras, Devaux wove together two without losing an emotional connection
numerous prizes and awards include the Jan V. compositional processes. The result is what she different kinds of dialogue into a rich sonic to it.”PROGR AMME NOTES
ESTRO In awarding the commission, the jury declared
Haber’s music to be “fascinating, beautiful, clever
and moving. The application of his craft and skill
to his compositions demonstrates that he has all
background, Haber has spent years thinking
about how he should look back at his past while
looking forward at his future. Working in the time
of pandemic has made him look deeply inwards,
POETICO-
the makings of a great composer.” working in a way he has not done for as long as he
can remember.
The work Haber composed for the Azrieli
Foundation, a song cycle for mezzo and chamber About the Leo Levi recordings that Haber chose for
orchestra titled Estro Poetico-armonico III, is each movement*:
third in a series that he began in 2012. For that
first work, he used the fifty Psalm settings by I. Tzur mishelo achalnu (“Rock of Sustenance”) is
ARMONICO
the Baroque composer Benedetto Marcello, sung by Angelina Rocca Meghnagi, Rome, 1956,
who transcribed and arranged what he heard one of the very few women that appear in Levi’s
in Venetian synagogues and “passed it through recordings. This melody is probably derived from a
yet one more filter, one more “broken telephone popular style of the 18th century.
game,’” as Haber describes it. “Visualize an oil
painting left out in the rain before it has had a II. Ahot Ktanah is sung by Dario Israel,
chance to dry, colors bleeding. I have turned this Trieste, 1956. A poem by Avraham ben
III
image into its musical counterpart.” This first work Yitzhak Hazan Gerondi (13th century) for the evening
in the series was premiered at the MATA Festival in of Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic tradition of
I. The Meal (Eliahu) | Tzur Mishelo Achalnu YOTAM HABER Brooklyn (New York) in 2012. Three years later, Estro Trieste. The text, based on the Song of Songs, refers
II. Wanted to Elaborate… (Shabtai) | Ahot Ktanah Poetico-armonico II for voice and five instruments to Israel like a “little sister” (Ahot Ktanah), and calls
III. Night Prayer (Eliahu) | Havdallah Born in Leiden, Netherlands October 27, 1976; was presented at the New York Philharmonic’s for the liberation of the Jewish people from the
IV. Abraham Becomes Human (Bernstein) | Chad Gadya now living in Kansas City, Missouri Contact! Festival and at the Venice Biennale. suffering of years past.
V. Song of the Righteous (Bar-Kohav) | Kol Biru’ei Music aficionados will note the similarity in title
Yotam Haber was born in the Netherlands and to Vivaldi’s Estro armonico, a magnificent set of III. Havdallah sung by Cesare Tagliacozzo, Rome,
grew up in Israel, Nigeria and Milwaukee. His twelve concertos whose title might be translated 1954. Benedictions and verses of messianic hope
teachers have included Eugene O’Brian, Claude as something like “harmonic whim” or “musical recited to signal the end of Shabbat and the
Baker, Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra at fancy.” It is worth noting that Haber has also, in beginning of the new week, in the Italian tradition
Indiana University and Cornell University. His a similar vein, borrowed the concept of another of Rome.
eclectic catalogue of works includes I AM for famous Baroque composer’s masterpiece, Handel’s
chorus and string quartet, Death in Venice for solo Water Music, for an interactive work written in 2017 IV. Chad Gadya sung by Fernando Procaccia,
trumpet and Knife in the Water for bass clarinet, for the Louisiana Philharmonic, to be performed Genova, 1954. Many Italian-Jewish chants feature
percussion and electronics. Upcoming projects from boats and barges along the waterways of New a strong regional component in their use of
include two works for chamber ensemble, They Orleans. dialect and in the pronounciation of Italian and
Say You Are My Disaster and Bloodsnow. Haber Hebrew words that reflect the local accents. In this
is Associate Professor of Composition at the In Estro Poetico-armonico III, Haber also continues Florentine version of the famous cumulative song
University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory to explore the music of Rome’s Jewish community of springtime, Chad Gadya (“one young goat”), each
of Music and Dance. as discovered through the archival recordings of verse of the original Aramaic narration is followed
ethnomusicologist Leo Levi. He employs these by a translation to a Hebrew/Italian mix.
From 2010-2014, Haber served as Artistic Director recordings of traditional cantillation and liturgical
of MATA, the non-profit organization dedicated texts in conjunction with – or in opposition to – V. Kol Biru’ei sung by Paolo Nissim, Trieste, 1956. An
to commissioning and presenting new works by texts by four modern Israeli poets (Ory Bernstein, acrostic poem describing “all the creatures” while
young composers from around the world. He now Eli Eliahu, Israel Bar Kohav and Aharon Shabtai) singing and praising the unity of god. It is recited
holds the title of Artistic Director Emeritus of that that reflect upon aspects of modern Israeli life daily in the morning prayer in the Italian tradition.
organization. Haber’s many prizes include a 2017 while also grappling with its history. As in his two This melody is sung only during Rosh Hashanah in
Koussevitzky Commission, a 2013 Fromm Music previous Estro Poetico-armonico compositions, the Italian tradition of Padua.
Foundation commission, the 2007 Rome Prize Haber’s new work continues Marcello’s ‘broken
and a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial telephone game’ of hearing and re-hearing, *Text adapted from notes by Francesco Spagnolo.
Foundation Fellowship. Most recently, Haber is remembering and misremembering, informing
All recordings used with permission from Dr. Edwin Seroussi and the Jewish
the recipient the 2020 Azrieli Jewish Commission. and misinforming. As a composer of Israeli Music Research Centre at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
© Anna Shuleit HaberLE NOU VEL
ENSEMBLE
MODER NE
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), founded in 1989 by conductor
Lorraine Vaillancourt, is a chamber orchestra composed of permanent
members, who perform in Quebec, in Canada and across the world.
Guided by a duty to perform the essential works of the 20th and 21st
centuries, both on the national and international stages, and by a
willingness to nurture the creation of new works, Le NEM’s mission is to
disseminate and promote this music. Widely acknowledged as a leader in its
field, Le NEM is recognized for its modernism and excellence in all aspects
of the performance, creation and preservation of the great musical works of
the 20th and 21st centuries. © Alain Beauchesne
Ensemble in residence at the Faculty of Music of the Université de
Montréal, Le NEM has performed in Canada, the United States, Mexico, THE MUSICIANS OF THE NEM
Japan, Australia, China, Singapore and in eight European countries. Since
its creation, over 185 works were composed for Le NEM.
Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor Julien Grégoire*, percussion
Le NEM has recorded 33 CDs for ProNEM, ATMA and UMMUS (Montreal),
Doberman-Yppan (Quebec), New World Records, Composers Recording Inc
Jeffrey Stonehouse, flute Philip Hornsey, percussion
(New York), Auvidis Montaigne (Paris) and ABC Classics (Australia). These Julie Sirois-Leclerc, oboe Francis Perron, piano
were produced in collaboration with the Faculty of Music of the Université Martin Carpentier, clarinet Johanne Morin, violin
de Montréal, Ircam, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Musica 93 Festival,
Radio-Canada, Radio France, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Mathieu Harel, bassoon Lyne Allard, violin
CIRMMT. Jocelyn Veilleux, horn François Vallières, viola
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne is supported by the Canada Council for the
Lise Bouchard*, trumpet Julie Trudeau, cello
Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts Angelo Muñoz, trombone Yannick Chênevert, bass
de Montréal.
www.lenem.ca *founding membersARTIST BIOS
LORR AINE
VAILLANCOURT CONDUCTOR
Conductor and pianist Lorraine Vaillancourt is the du Neuf (1978 to 1989). In 1990, she was behind the
founder and Musical Director of Le Nouvel Ensemble founding of CIRCUIT, a North American magazine
Moderne (NEM), which has been in residence at devoted to 20th-century music. She was president
the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal of the Conseil québécois de la Musique (CQM)
since 1989. She received full professorship at the from 1998 to 2001, after which she sat on the board
same institution in 1990 and directed its Atelier de of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
musique contemporaine from 1974 until she retired (CALQ) until 2006.
from teaching in 2016.
She is also a member of the Royal Society of
Prof. Vaillancourt is frequently invited to conduct Canada and of the Ordre du Bleuet. Lorraine
various ensembles and orchestras, both in Canada Vaillancourt received a Doctorate Honoris Causa
and abroad. In Canada, she has conducted the from Laval University (Quebec City) in 2013, and
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Orchestre was named Member (CM) of the Order of Canada in
symphonique de Québec and the Orchestre 2016, in recognition of her important contributions
Métropolitain; abroad, she directed the Orchestre to contemporary music. The same year, she
de Cannes, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), was awarded a Prix Hommage at the Prix Opus
the National Orchestra of the RAI (Turin), the Nice ceremony, as well as the prestigious Prix Denise-
Philharmonic (France), the Ensemble Orchestral Pelletier, awarded by the Quebec Government in
Contemporain (Lyon), the Ensemble Sillages honour of her exceptional artistic journey. In 2018,
(Nice), the Plural Ensemble (Madrid) as well as Les she was named chevalière de l’Ordre du Québec
Percussions de Strasbourg. Along with composers and in 2019, Lorraine Vaillancourt received the
José Evangelista, John Rea and Claude Vivier, Médaille de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec, a
© Bernard Préfontaine Lorraine Vaillancourt is a founding member of the high distinction recognizing her major contributions
Montreal-based concert society, Les Événements to the cultural life of Quebec.ARTIST BIOS
SHARON
AZRIELI SOPRANO
Originally from Montreal, soprano Sharon Azrieli televised concert at Zoomer Hall (Toronto) for
has enjoyed international success at world famous Classical FM, performed the roles of Marcellina
venues including Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan in Le Nozze di Figaro (National Arts Centre) under
Opera, l’Opéra Bastille de Paris and with leading the baton of Alexander Shelley and Liu in
organizations such as the Canadian Opera Turandot (Teatro Greco Siracusa) with the late,
Company, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal great tenor Marcello Giordani. Upcoming
and The New Israel Opera, among others. performances include Paul McCartney’s Liverpool
Oratorio with Orchestre classique de Montréal
In 2019, she was awarded the National Order and the role of Bertha in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with
of Quebec (Chevalière du Québec) for her Opera de Montréal as well as Eboli in Verdi’s Don
remarkable achievements as a performer. Carlo.
Known for her versatility as a singer, Dr. Azrieli has Sharon sang the title song of the
released several albums, (distributed by Time-Life, Canadian movie “Stand!” and her vocals were
Analekta, and others) including Sharon Azrieli also featured in the Hollywood production film
Sings Broadway (with arranger Marvin Laird), “Stagemother” featuring Lucy Liu.
The Gift of Joy, and an upcoming album with
Tony AwardTM-winning composer Frank Wildhorn, Sharon conceived of the Azrieli Music Prizes for
in which she translated his songs herself into the Azrieli Foundation in 2014 and is devoted to
French, Italian and Hebrew. arts education and philanthropy. She sits on the
boards of several philanthropic organizations,
In 2019, Sharon performed the role of Sister including the Azrieli Foundation.
Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at The
Metropolitan Opera, was a headliner in a live www.sharonazrieli.com
© Jeffrey HornsteinARTIST BIOS
KRISZTINA
SZABÓ MEZZO-SOPRANO
Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó is premiere of Barbara Croall’s oratorio Miziwe…
highly sought in both North America and Europe (Everywhere…) with Pax Christi Chorale. Ms.
as an artist of supreme musicianship and Szabó recently sang the role of Witness 2/
stagecraft. Among her many laudatory reviews, Woman 2/Singer 2 in the world premiere
the Chicago Tribune wrote “Krisztina Szabó of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and
stole every scene with her powerful, mahogany Violence with the Royal Opera House and the
voice…” when describing her performances of Dutch National Opera. The Opus Arte recording
Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea. The New of Lessons in Love and Violence has been
York Times praised her Lincoln Center debut nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award for “Best
as Dorabella in Così fan tutte as «clear, strong, Opera Recording”.
stately and endearingly vulnerable...”.
Other opera highlights include engagements
Ms. Szabó is a versatile singer, bridging the with the San Francisco, Montreal, Quebec and
worlds of opera, orchestral and recital music Vancouver Operas, Wexford Festival Opera,
ranging in repertoire from the baroque to the Chicago Opera Theater, Stadttheater Klagenfurt,
contemporary. While the start of her 2020-2021 the Caramoor Festival and Lincoln Center’s
season includes the world premiere of Yotam Mostly Mozart Festival. She has appeared
Haber’s Estro Poetico-armonico III, by May in concert with the symphony orchestras of
2021 she returns to Tafelmusik in an all-Vivaldi Atlanta, Baltimore, Toronto, Nova Scotia, and
concert. In the 2019-20 season, Ms. Szabó Calgary; and with Les Violons du Roy, Talisker
sang Gertrude in Hänsel und Gretel with the Players, Vancouver Bach Choir, Toronto
Canadian Opera Company and appeared as Mendelssohn Choir, and at the Grand Teton
a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Vancouver Music Festival and Cervantino Festival in
Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with Mexico.
Early Music Vancouver and Portland
Baroque Orchestra, Beethoven’s Mass in Ms. Szabó appears as Zerlina in the Rhombus
C Major with Kansas City Symphony and Media film Don Giovanni: Leporello’s Revenge,
Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with the Toronto alongside the renowned late Russian baritone
Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and can be heard on the
accompanying soundtrack released by CBC
In 2019, Ms. Szabó sang the world premiere Records.
of Ian Cusson’s Where There’s a Wall at the
National Arts Centre (Ottawa) and the world www.krisztinaszabo.com
© Bo HuangARTIST BIOS
KEIKO
DEVAUX
LAUREATE - 2020 AZRIELI
COMISSION FOR CANADIAN MUSIC
Montreal-based composer Keiko Devaux Ensemble Moderne was nominated in the New
(b.1982) has had works performed in Canada, Work category of the 2017-18 Opus awards, and
France, Germany and Italy by various ensembles her work Ombra was a finalist for the Prix du
including Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, musica CALQ – Œuvres de la relève à Montréal in the
assoluta, Ensemble Arkea, Quartetto Prometeo same year. In 2019 she won the inaugural Azrieli
and Ensemble Wapiti, among others. She Commission for Canadian Music.
composes regularly for diverse ensembles, as
well as collaborates with choreographers and From 2016 to 2018, Ms. Devaux was the
filmmakers. composer in residence with Le Nouvel Ensemble
Moderne. From 2020 to 2022, she is in residence
Her approach embraces a love of electroacoustic with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa)
sounds and methodology by manipulating and as a Carrefour composer. She is an Associate
distorting acoustic sound with digital tools, and Composer with the Canadian Music Centre,
then transcribing or re-translating these back president of the board of directors of Codes
into musical notation and the acoustic realm. d’accès, and past organizer of the Montreal
Her interests include emotional experience and Contemporary Music Lab.
affect, auto-organizational phenomena in nature
and living beings, as well as ‘genre-blurring’ by Originally from British Columbia, Ms. Devaux
layering and juxtaposing contrasting melodic/ began her musical career in piano performance
harmonic skeletal elements of highly contrasting studies as well as composing, touring and
sonic sources. The distortion of the temporal, recording several albums in independent
frequency and timbral attributes allow the rock bands. She holds a Bachelor of Music
blurring between traditional tonal sounds and (Écriture) and a Master of Music in instrumental
more electroacoustic inspired ‘noise’ gestures. composition from the Université de Montréal.
She has also studied with Maestro Salvatore
Ms. Devaux has received numerous prizes and Sciarrino at l’Accademia Musicale Chigiana in
awards, including the Prix Jan V. Matejcek for Siena, Italy (2017-19). She is currently completing
New Classical Music (2019), the Rotary Club her doctorate in music composition and creation
Siena Award (2018), the OUM composition at the Université de Montréal under the direction
prize (2016 and 2018) and the Jury and Public of Ana Sokolović and Pierre Michaud.
prizes of the Accès Arkea competition (2017).
Her composition Ebb premiered by the Nouvel www.keikodevaux.com
© Caroline DesiletsARTIST BIOS
YOTAM
HABER
LAUREATE - 2020 AZRIELI
COMISSION FOR JEWISH MUSIC
His music hailed by New Yorker critic Alex Ross Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor;
as “deeply haunting,” by the Los Angeles Times an evening-length oratorio for the Alabama
as one of five classical musicians “2014 Faces To Symphony Orchestra, CalARTS@REDCAT/
Watch,” and chosen as one of the “30 composers Disney Hall (Los Angeles); New York-based
under 40” by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Contemporaneous, Gabriel Kahane and Alarm
Project 440, Yotam Haber was born in Holland Will Sound; the 2015 New York Philharmonic
and grew up in Israel, Nigeria and Milwaukee. He CONTACT! Series; the Venice Biennale; Bang
is a laureate of the 2020 Azrieli Music Prizes and on a Can Summer Festival; Neuvocalsolisten
a recipient of a 2017 Koussevitzky Commission Stuttgart and ensemble l’arsenale; FLUX Quartet,
for the Library of Congress, a 2013 Fromm Music JACK Quartet, Cantori New York, the Tel Aviv-
Foundation commission, a 2013 NYFA award, based Meitar Ensemble, and the Berlin-based
the 2007 Rome Prize and a 2005 John Simon Quartet New Generation.
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
He has received grants and fellowships from Recent and upcoming projects of note include
Civitella Ranieri, the MAP Fund, New Music USA, New Water Music, an interactive work (2017) for
the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome the Louisiana Philharmonic and hundreds of
Foundation, the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation, community musicians performed from boats and
Yaddo, Bogliasco, MacDowell Colony, the barges along the waterways of New Orleans; and
Hermitage, ASCAP, the Copland House, Aspen his first opera, The Lime Works, with librettist
Music Festival and Tanglewood. Royce Vavrek based on the work of Thomas
Bernhard.
In 2015, Haber’s first monographic album of
© Brian Tarnowski chamber music, Torus, was hailed by New York’s Haber is Associate Professor of Composition
WQXR as “a snapshot of a soul in flux – moving at UMKC Conservatory and Artistic Director
from life to the afterlife, from Israel to New Emeritus of MATA, the non-profit organization
Orleans – a composer looking for a sound and founded by Philip Glass that has, since 1996,
finding something powerful along the way.” been dedicated to commissioning and presenting
new works by young composers from around the
Recent commissions include works for Argento world. His music is published by RAI Trade.
New Music Project, Le Nouvel Ensemble
Moderne, Kronos Quartet and Carnegie Hall, www.yotamhaber.comARTIST BIOS
PIERRE
MERCURE
The integration of creative media was the axis around on Mercure’s musical language. Its effects were not where his Divertissement and Triptyque marked a 1962 allowed him to gain a closer knowledge of electronic
which Pierre Mercure’s life and work revolved. He measurable until 1961, or perhaps even 1965. point of artistic arrival. Insistent rhythms and glittering music.
studied bassoon and conducting as well as harmony orchestrations can be found in his numerous background
and counterpoint at the Montreal Conservatory of Influenced by Borduas’ Refus global manifesto (1948), scores for CBC radio dramas (1950-54) and for stage At the time of his death in a traffic accident (1966),
Music (1944-49) with the goal of becoming an orchestra Mercure sought new means of expression. He enrolled productions by Les Compagnons. This association with Mercure had scarcely reached maturity. His musical
conductor. Here, Claude Champagne helped him discover in Nadia Boulanger’s classes in Paris (1949) and, while theatre, dance and even painting was a determining output had been peaking since 1961 with each new work
French music and develop a talent for orchestration, increasingly attracted by new music, he preferred to work influence on Mercure. stepping towards the realization of an ideal of freedom
which was evident even in his first works, Kaléidoscope on improvisations and collective compositions with his governed by human thought.
and Pantomime. composer friends. He left Boulanger’s studio before too In January 1952, he joined the CBC and became its
long to study orchestration with Arthur Hoérée and Darius first producer of TV music programs. He produced 41 Mercure’s manuscripts and papers are deposited in the
Before going to Paris in 1949 for further education, Milhaud and conducting with Jean Fournet. After a year programs in the series ‘L’Heure du concert’ (1954-9) and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Volume
Mercure participated in some modern ballet productions filled with new experiences, Mercure returned to Montreal, several ‘Concerts pour la jeunesse’. His musical style 35 of Radio Canada International’s Anthology of Canadian
with a group of young poets, musicians, dancers and still searching for new means of expression. became more recognizable but also fueled by a need Music, issued on CD in 1990, is devoted to Mercure’s
painters whose artistic views were much influenced by the for continual experimentation. Mercure’s subsequent compositions. His status as an Associate Composer is
painter Paul-Émile Borduas. In May 1949, at the Théâtre Throughout the period 1948-59 Mercure continually explorations in electroacoustics grew out of encounters maintained by the Canadian Music Centre.
des Compagnons he realized three works: Dualité, Femme searched for new sonorities and lyricism, taking Stravinsky, with the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) during
archaïque and Lucrèce Borgia. This collaboration with Milhaud and Honegger as his models. His essentially his second study trip to Europe (1957-8). A third study trip (Adapted from the text by Lise Richer for the Canadian
the ‘automatists,’ however, had little immediate influence lyrical nature was revealed in the song cycle Dissidence, to Paris, Darmstadt and Dartington during the summer of Encyclopedia)ARTIST BIOS
YITZHAK
YEDID
© James Goss
LAUREATE - 2020 AZRIELI PRIZE
FOR JEWISH MUSIC
Yitzhak Yedid is an award-winning composer Dance, continued his schooling at the New Iraqi Jewish background. This music exhibits well as with many ensembles in festivals and
and improvising pianist with a folio of over fifty England Conservatory and earned a Ph.D. an: “eclectic, multicultural and very personal venues across Europe, Canada, USA, Asia
orchestral, chamber, solo and vocal works. He in composition from Monash University. His style that amalgamates ancestral Syrian- and and Africa. Thirteen albums of his music
is currently a 2017 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow interests as a composer focus on the integration Iraqian-Jewish cantillation, Israeli East-West have been released on the Challenge Records
and a past recipient of Israel’s Prime Minister’s of non-European musical elements, including encounters, European and American avant- International, Sony, Naxos, -btl-, Muse, MCI and
Prize for Composers (2007) and the Landau improvisation, with Western practice. More garde compositional techniques mixed with Kaleidos labels, and numerous reviews of his
Prize for Performing Arts (2009). Yedid has been specifically, his compositions explore the nexus free jazz and selected Australian influences, all work have been published in the international
a composer-in-residence at the Judith Wright of classical Arabic music, Arabic-influenced infused with insights of a concert pianist and music media.
Centre (Brisbane, 2010) and at the Western Jewish music and contemporary Western art improviser to create an experimental, highly
Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2008). music. expressive yet alluring modern style.” While In addition to his career as a composer and
His works have won several international Yedid’s music is multiethnic, multicultural, and performer, Dr. Yedid has been teaching and
awards, most recent among them the 2020 Inspired by literature, philosophy, art and consequently, transnational in its approach, it mentoring music students since 2008. He
Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music. landscape, Yedid’s compositions form narratives is also well integrated and marked by a unique currently lectures in composition and piano
told in pictures, textures and colours. His creative unity. at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith
Yedid was born in Israel and since 2007 has music incorporates a wide spectrum of University in Brisbane.
called Australia home. He studied piano contemporary and ancient styles to create Yitzhak Yedid has performed at New York’s
at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and a unique voice that reflects his Syrian and Carnegie Hall and Boston’s Jordan Hall, as www.yedidmusic.comTHE AMP
JEWISH
MUSIC JURY
Maestro Boris Brott OC, O.Ont, Brian Current studied music at Betty Olivero is a contemporary Israeli Neil W. Levin is one of the leading Internationally acclaimed conductor
GOQ., D.Mus., LL.D. is one of the most McGill University and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., composer, who has lived during most of her authorities and lecturers on Jewish music and composer Steven Mercurio’s
internationally recognized Canadian 2002). His music, lauded and broadcast career in Florence, Italy. She has received and the author of more than 300 related career encompasses both symphonic and
conductors, and enjoys an international in over 35 countries, has been awarded the Fromm Award (USA, 1986), the Prime articles, essays and books. He is Artistic operatic worlds. Following five years as
career as guest conductor, educator, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the inaugural Minister’s Prize (Israel, 2001 and 2009), Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Milken Music Director of the Spoleto Festival and
motivational speaker and cultural Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music, the the Rosenblum Award for the Performing Archive of Jewish Music, which documents, Principal Conductor of the Opera Company
ambassador. He is Artistic Director of Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music, the Arts (Israel, 2003), the Landau Award preserves and disseminates music of all of Philadelphia, he has become a sought-
the Orchestre classique de Montréal Italian Premio Fedora for Chamber Opera for the Performing Arts (Israel, 2004), genres pertaining to Jewish experience and after collaborator for many award-winning
(formerly McGill Chamber Orchestra), the and as a Selected Work (under 30) at the the ACUM prize for Life Achievements which, under his direction, has released recordings, arrangements and film projects.
National Academy Orchestra of Canada, International Rostrum of Composers in (Israel, 2004) and the ACUM Award for more than 700 recordings – including 50 For the stage, Maestro Mercurio has
and Principal Guest Conductor of the Paris. Brian Current’s pieces have been Achievement of the Year (Israel, 2010). While CDs on the Naxos label. A professor of conducted more than fifty operas in seven
Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari, Italy. He is programmed by all major symphony still studying in Israel, Betty Olivero was Jewish music at the Jewish Theological different languages for many of the world’s
also Artistic Director of the Brott Musical orchestras in Canada and by dozens of granted scholarships from the America- Seminary since 1982, Dr. Levin has been best loved opera houses. His symphonic
Festivals in Ontario and Founding Music professional orchestras, ensembles and Israel Cultural Foundation. In 2000, Olivero Professor-in-Residence at the YIVO Institute experience is just as impressive, as is his
Director of the New West Symphony in Los opera companies world-wide. His music received the prestigious Koussevitzky for Jewish Research in New York since 2016. presence in on-air concerts for the likes of
Angeles. Boris Brott served as Assistant appears on ten commercial recordings, Award. She currently lives in Israel, where RAI and PBS, and on record for Decca and
Conductor to the New York Philharmonic including three albums devoted exclusively she is a full professor of composition at the Sony Classical. Also an active composer
under the late Leonard Bernstein, was to his works. The Naxos recording of his Music Department in Bar-Ilan University and arranger, Maestro Mercurio’s works
Music Director and Conductor for the Royal opera Airline Icarus earned him a 2015 Juno have received their world premieres by
Ballet, Covent Garden, Chief Conductor of Award for Best Classical Composition. the New York and Oslo Philharmonics. His
the BBC National Symphony of Wales, and arrangements have been performed by a
Music Director of the Northern Sinfonia of range of artists, including Andrea Bocelli,
England. He is an Officer of the Order of Placido Domingo, Ben Heppner, Bryn Terfel,
Canada, Member of the Order of Ontario Secret Garden and Sting. He is presently
and Grand officier de l’Ordre national du the Music Director of the Czech National
Quebec. Symphony Orchestra.THE AMP
CANADIAN
MUSIC JURY
Barbara Croall is Odawa First Dr. Mary Ingraham is a music historian David Pay is the founder and Artistic Composer Ana Sokolović has Described as a “new music visionary”
Nations and balances her time composing, and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Director of Vancouver’s Music on Main. distinguished herself both in Canada (National Arts Centre), composer
performing and teaching music with work University of Lethbridge. Prior to her current Since 2006, he has earned an international and internationally with her music Andrew Staniland has established
in outdoor education rooted in traditional appointment, she was the Director of the reputation as one of today’s leading- that infuses Balkan rhythms across a himself as one of Canada’s most important
Anishinaabeg teachings, working with Sound Studies Institute at the University edge classical and contemporary music multidisciplinary range of artistic influences. and innovative musical voices. His music
aboriginal youth and singing in traditional of Alberta, Professor of Musicology in programmers. Pay focuses on how music Her music seduces an ever-growing is performed and broadcast internationally
ceremonies. She graduated from the the Department of Music, and Manager from different eras and different genres audience, drawing them into a vividly and has been described by Alex Ross in The
Hochschule für Musik in Munich and the of UAlberta partnerships with both the can shed light on each other and creates imagined world. Sokolović’s success is New Yorker as “alternately beautiful and
University of Toronto, and also studied Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta innovative ways for audiences and revealed through prestigious collaborations terrifying”. Important accolades include three
composition and theory with Dr. Samuel and the Cultures of Sound Network (with musicians to engage together. His concerts with Canadian orchestras, leading artists on Juno nominations, the 2016 Terra Nova Young
Dolin, Sasha Rapaport and Arthur Levine. Smithsonian Folkways Records, the Canadian have been praised as “a program that the musical scene, as well as many Quebec Innovators Award, the National Grand Prize
Other music composition studies include Museum of History and Memorial University of spanned the range of human experience” chamber music ensembles. Her varied winner of EVOLUTION (presented in 2009 by
those with Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, Newfoundland). Mary’s scholarly interests are (Huffington Post). David has been a Visiting repertoire, which has received numerous CBC Radio 2/Espace Musique and The Banff
Robert Saxton and Helmut Lachenmann. largely connected to culture in Canada. Her Artist and Associate Director at The Banff awards and prizes, includes several Centre), and was the recipient of the Karen
Apart from her music for traditional First work is historical and contemporary, critical Centre and has served on the faculty productions of her operas, such as Svadba, Keiser Prize in Canadian Music in 2004.
Nations flutes and voice in the Anishinaabe and pedagogical, and includes collaborations at Capilano University. He is a frequent which “seems to invent a phonetic universe As a leading composer of his generation,
way, her music for soloists, chamber with Indigenous communities in BC and speaker at conferences across North of the human heart” (Le Monde) and The Andrew has been recognized by election
ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, dance Alberta on creative initiatives and digital America and Europe and was the Artistic Midnight Court, which was produced at to the Inaugural Cohort of the College of
and interdisciplinary performance has been archiving projects. Her research appears Producer of the 2015 Opening Night Gala the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the
premiered in over 12 countries. in numerous journals and with Ashgate, of Classical:NEXT, the world’s leading addition to her activities as a composer, Ana Royal Society of Canada. Andrew was an
Routledge, Oxford University, University of classical music showcase. He served as Sokolović is also a professor of composition Affiliate Composer to the Toronto Symphony
Alberta and University of Michigan presses. Artistic Director of ISCM World New Music at the Université de Montréal. Orchestra (2006-09) and the National Arts
She has presented her research across Days 2017, the largest new music festival in Centre Orchestra (2002–04) and has also
North American and internationally, and Canada’s history. been in residence at the Centre du Creation
is the author of multiple online resources Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris, 2005). He is
for exploring culture in Canada, including currently on faculty at Memorial University in
“Resounding Culture: Recontextualizing St John’s Newfoundland.
resources for histories of music in Canada”
and multiple collaborations on the “Digitizing
the Ancestors” project with the Aboriginal
Multi-Media Society of Alberta.2020 AMP
TEAM
THE ADVISORY FOR THE AZRIELI AMP PRODUCTION
COUNCIL MUSIC PRIZES PARTNERS
Ana Sokolović – Chair Jason van Eyk 8VA Music Consultancy
Sharon Azrieli, D.Mus C.Q. Manager, Azrieli Music Initiatives Publicity and Media Relations
Boris Brott, OC, GOQ, O.Ont
Sharon Landsman ProdCan Inc. / Medici TV
Peter Herrndorf CC, O.Ont General Counsel Gala Concert Livestream Production
Sylvia L’Écuyer CM
Barbara Seal CM Abby Robins Riddle Films
Communications Manager Laureate Portrait Videos
David Sela
Alex Grunwald Shira Gilbert PR
Digital Communications Strategist French Publicity and Media Relations
Catherine Quintal SOUNDLAB New Music Podcasts
Digital Communications Assistant Laureate Portrait Podcasts
Eclipse Productions
Outreach Event Production
Haryco Design
Branding and Graphic DesignJOSEPH
In Memoriam
ROULEAU A message from Sharon Azrieli D.Mus C.Q.,
on behalf of the Azrieli Foundation:
It is with great fondness that we remember the life
of the great singer, visionary and philanthropist
Joseph Rouleau, CC, GOQ, AL.
Joseph was a huge inspiration to me, as he was to
so many Canadian singers. He was generous with
his time, energy and guidance, especially through
his foundational involvement in leading arts
institutions like Jeunesses Musicales Canada, the
Montreal International Music Competition and so
many others.
On this occasion, we remember the central role
Joseph played in the creation and launch of
the Azrieli Music Prizes as the inaugural Chair
of the Advisory Council. Here, we witnessed so
much of what made him so special to us all – his
charm, collaboration, commitment, intelligence,
thoughtfulness and warmth.
Joseph really was a force of nature. While it is still
difficult for me to imagine the world without him,
I am grateful for all he did and wholeheartedly
dedicate tonight’s celebration to his memory.
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